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President’s Day, Lincoln & Munich: NATO Expansion, Rubio, Putin & Global Power Reality · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning. Welcome. Uh, I am
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  Samuel Trap. This is International
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  Flavor. You are listening to
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  damradio.com/live.
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  Coming to you live from the Lake Ozark
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  Real Estate Studio. It is Monday. It is
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  President's Day
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  and I think [laughter]
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  maybe I'm on the wrong day. Who the hell
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  knows? No, I'm on I'm I'm on the right
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  day. It's uh January is uh MLK day,
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  right? And uh February is I can't
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  believe my civics are that far off. If
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  you were listening, perhaps you heard
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  the new edition on Friday of our new
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  radio program. It's probably not going
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  to be just me. There should be other
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  participants and uh interviews and stuff
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  like that. I still have my press
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  credentials and some an interview uh
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  little kit for my it's pretty cool for
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  my phone and whatnot. Um
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  where I can go out and interview people
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  and I intend to do some of that and uh a
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  little bit and like I did when I was in
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  Russia. Um the it was pretty cool. I
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  might even have bought it over there. I
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  can't remember. But uh uh it's pretty
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  cool little uh little getup. At any
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  rate, um, uh, Friday we put out the
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  first episode of
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  our Civic Outlaws podcast and, uh, you
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  can find that. I'm trying to create a CI
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  at go to civicoutlaws.com.
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  I'm not sure the link is up there yet.
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  So, I copied it to my international
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  flavor site if you'd like to listen uh,
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  to the analysis. Basically, it's a
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  walkthrough of why Civic Outlaws is
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  there. Um, in my typical rambling style,
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  sometimes I go through and uh uh do some
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  legal analysis for you. and I put
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  together the
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  review of the Chevron doctrine, why it
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  was wrong, why it's um been overturned
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  by this uh uh well the Supreme Court uh
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  as it was in 2024.
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  Um and then why the state of Missouri
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  has codified those changes even more
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  dramatically and why civic outlaws
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  exist. Um, we
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  here in the United States
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  do not wish to be
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  uh the Soviet Union, even though they
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  had a uh pretty cool theme.
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  There it is.
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  [music]
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  >> [music]
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  [music]
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  >> We had to learn that. Didn't have to,
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  but we learned it in Russian school.
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  It's pretty cool. Um, at any rate,
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  that's always been my favorite version
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  is the uh U the US USSR
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  army choir or military choir and uh
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  that's I always liked it. That was the
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  one they always played at parades and
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  whatnot and and anyway, but here uh we
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  don't want to be the Soviet Union. Hell,
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  you know, I was listening to that and
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  and there's been some great presidents
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  in our history. We've had some I meant
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  to bring in and forgot. I I'm going to
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  put on a song for you. Maybe I'll let
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  the hymn of the Soviet Union play
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  because sometimes I feel like that's the
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  way we're headed [laughter] and but I
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  don't want to I mean it's unpatriotic
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  and I'm I'm a patriot, you know. I
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  believe in America. I believe in in our
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  ideals. I believe in what uh our
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  founders
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  intended. And sometimes I look at our
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  government and I think that we're so far
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  off from where we began that I fear for
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  our children. and and you know the
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  as a generation,
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  my generation living through the
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  collapse of Soviet Union and all of
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  that. Um to watch the
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  nanny state take over for many many
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  people is really depressing to me. Now I
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  don't like it anyway. Number one, I I I
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  you know people talk about the collapse
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  of the Soviet Union. I'm one of them. I
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  could lecture on it. People like to
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  believe that Reagan toppled the uh the
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  Soviet Union and I think he was the
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  catalyst to the final nail in the
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  coffin, but they were on their way out
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  anyway because the
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  go back and study your systems of
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  government and and democracy is supposed
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  to be the be all end all. Okay? There
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  have been attempts at it before. You
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  know, they had senates and people like
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  that and in prior uh eras, people that
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  got to have the the speak speaking of
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  the governors placed below. What they
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  did in Ukraine is uh the the the imagine
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  a world where
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  the US president appointed
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  each governor where the where Donald
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  Trump would come into office and at the
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  same time he'd get to go well all right
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  well here's they have federal systems
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  right and these systems collapse on
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  their own weight federal system that's
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  just what they do you need to have
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  independent I I like the loosely held uh
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  the loosely held Republic is a much
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  better option because if uh in Ukraine,
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  which is true, they uh get to pick the
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  governor when they come into office.
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  It's uh
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  [laughter]
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  what kind of world is that? If all you
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  are is an administrator of the big
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  ticket item, well, there that's that's
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  uh in my view, it's not necessarily a
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  good view of democracy. Now, there are a
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  lot of structures like that. So, I'm not
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  saying it cannot work. And sometimes
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  people want to have the will of the
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  people. I'm I'm not here to tell you
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  which one is I. Now, I prefer democracy,
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  but I prefer a clean democracy.
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  I prefer a a democracy that is legit,
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  that isn't corrupted by bureaucracy. And
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  if you want to hear about one of the big
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  corrections made by the uh Supreme Court
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  in 2024, you should go back and listen
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  to my civic outlaws case. It's a it's a
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  a class on government and how, you know,
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  government is not supposed to be driven
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  by the bureaucrat. And that's the
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  problem is is the bureaucracy. It's not
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  socialism. It's not even communism.
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  Although communism, I believe, collapses
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  of its own weight eventually. But there
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  there's a decent argument to be made
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  that any government that exceeds its
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  mandate, exceeds its authority is going
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  to collapse of its own weight. The
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  trouble in a communist system is you
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  don't have the fight from below
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  necessarily because you have the people
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  get this. They always used to make false
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  statements that everybody got paid the
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  same in a Soviet system and all that.
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  That's not how it worked and it's not
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  how it works in communism. Um, no, it
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  would be interesting to see if there was
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  ever a government and and properly
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  communism truly could work. Uh, I
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  remember growing up um um Mormon in fact
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  and going through the uh the bishop's
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  warehouses and stuff like that. The the
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  Mormon church has a huge uh uh social
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  presence as many churches do. I don't
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  know much about the rest of them, but uh
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  uh they you'd have to we would go to the
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  canning factories and and uh what what
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  do you call it? Uh donate our time,
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  stuff like that. And it could be a very
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  good system where everybody gets
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  together and takes care of those who
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  can't take care of themselves. The
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  problem becomes is everybody, not
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  everybody, you know, a lot of people are
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  true uh true givers and have that giving
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  spirit, but a lot of people take
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  advantage.
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  And the more you give them, the more
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  they take.
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  And they don't just take, you know, each
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  according to his need. Everybody
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  produces according to their capacity and
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  takes only according to his need. In
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  democracy, that sure as hell isn't the
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  case. [laughter]
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  It's or capitalism. I mean, in
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  capitalism, mine, mine, mine. Do you
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  remember the uh what show is that?
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  Finding Nemo the the um I always used to
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  love watching that show because it was
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  freaking hilarious. And you would watch
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  uh the the seagulls up there and uh one
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  bird would start, they'd see a a little
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  I don't know, a fish, a worm, whatever,
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  and go mine. And then all the rest of
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  the seagulls go mine. And instead of uh
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  uh c like bird sounds, they'd go mine,
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  mine, mine, mine, mine. [laughter] It's
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  freaking hilarious. You'd hear him doing
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  that everywhere. Anyway, I'm really on a
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  roll today. I'm just rambling. Sorry
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  about that. But we don't want the Soviet
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  system. And the Soviet Union collapsed
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  because of
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  equality, because of [clears throat]
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  equality is not the right word, but but
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  for lack of a of a better substitute,
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  there it is. Everybody gets to to take
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  but but and it's and it shows up in some
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  of their uh their stories. One of my
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  favorite Russian movies is a is called
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  Sluv Roman, which is a uh office romance
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  is what it means. in a two-part 3-hour
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  kind of a a comedy slash love story.
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  It's it's a it's a it's a great movie
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  from I I want to say the early '7s, but
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  uh I could be wrong. I I really like the
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  actor in there. He's the same actor that
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  is in uh Silk Kimotum, which is u have a
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  nice bath and it's a traditionally um
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  Christmas uh time watching. It's a great
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  story. another another great love story
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  and they've even translated in English
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  in many respects. It was uh so well
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  received in one of the best movies. It
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  was freaking hilarious. And they had
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  some great movies back in the uh the the
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  good old days of the Soviet Union too.
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  And uh even there though they in Slushb
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  Roman they would uh
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  make fun of the the director of the of
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  the uh econ economic
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  um studies
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  business.
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  was concerned when she hired a new
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  manager that um
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  people were leaving their desks uh going
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  shopping. They were taking care of
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  things because when uh in a in a market
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  where it's not
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  there's it's not driven it wasn't driven
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  by demand. It was driven by supply. And
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  in those markets you take what you can
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  get. you know, if they got if they're
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  only and and then the jokes the
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  Americans made about them in the 80s
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  were like your Wendy's commercials
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  uh where
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  uh the the the Wendy's commercial lady
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  would would would be laughing about how
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  everything's the same and everybody's in
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  these gray gray outfits and uh they they
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  would make fun of it and uh but you
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  bought what was available and so they
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  would always have jokes that if you know
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  a truck pulled up full of full of uh
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  watermelons, everybody go out and buy
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  one. That was one of the things in the
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  deal and they would leave their offices.
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  Everybody go out and buy a watermelon
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  because the system was such that you
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  couldn't if you wanted a watermelon, you
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  couldn't go to the store and get a
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  watermelon always. Now, the Soviet had
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  some strong Soviet system had strong
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  pluses too, but those are historic
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  things. People like to think that Ronald
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  Reagan toppled, pushed over, collapsed.
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  I I think he he he he was the final
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  catalyst by the threat of Star Wars and
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  all of that, but the system was on its
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  own going to collapse anyway if you
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  don't take care of your internal uh
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  production and in your how you structure
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  your society and what they get and give
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  them a mix of the ability, you know,
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  without it being through
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  uh the the the sucking up to power
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  through your local uh [clears throat] K
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  party communist parties and and kissing
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  the ass of government. You know, they
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  did the same thing that we have to do if
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  we want to get anywhere. Anyway, as we
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  ease into this uh morning of
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  excuse me, President's Day. Uh and if
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  you're off work, great. Um I chose to
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  work today. Yesterday was a beautiful
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  day. I got some things done. I didn't
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  even leave the house except for briefly
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  to cart a load of trash to the dumpster
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  at the office. [laughter] That's all I
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  did. But the rest of it I was at home
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  clean and sorting. But I've been I've
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  been uh uh living in squalor for a
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  little bit and I had to uh uh get some
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  work done. So uh I was not in eternally
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  in the office like normal. Um, and so
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  anyway, I want to get to the big theme
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  of big government,
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  but what I think I'm going to do is get
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  my uh quotes from Abraham Lincoln out of
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  my office because I do want to um quote
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  some of them to you. And in the
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  meantime, I'm going to play for you my
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  favorite. I won't play the hymn of the
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  Soviet Union, although some of you may
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  like it. It's it's actually a very I
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  like the rhythm of of u that kind of
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  march music in the uh and I really like
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  the allmale
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  uh Soviet army choir that uh does that.
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  I always have liked that version. Brings
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  back a lot of memories for me from my uh
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  Russian school days at the Defense
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  Language Institute in California.
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  So, but in the meantime, I'm kind of a u
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  I really like uh music. I like going to
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  um
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  concerts. I've told you about the one I
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  went to in uh
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  where was that? Bishk uh Kyrgyzstan. And
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  and it cost me 10 bucks to go see um
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  what is this? Paul Paul uh Paul Tiestto
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  Paul Vendes. Some really cool people.
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  And I kind of like the dance music, the
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  uh the the club sort of things that you
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  you see. And so I'm going to play for
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  you whilst I go get my Abraham Lincoln
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  quotes for today and then we'll ease
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  into the big the big topics that I have
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  in store for you. I'm going to play my
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  uh favorite version of One Night in
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  Bangkok. That could be a lot of fun. And
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  here is uh we was one night in Bangkok,
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  wasn't it? Taco. I don't remember who
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  did One Night in Bangkok, but uh we're
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  going to play my favorite version, which
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  is more of a club version of One Night
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  in Bangkok. And there you have it. Sam's
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  uh favorite version [clears throat]
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  of One Night in Bangkok. That's the
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  Vinyl Shakers.
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  And would have loved to see them in
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  concert. However, that has not occurred.
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  Um, and uh, at any rate, I don't know,
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  maybe you don't like that here on DAM
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  Radio. Who can tell what sort of uh,
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  customers we have uh, engaging in our
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  custom here at DAM Radio? But that is
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  uh, music Allah Sam.
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  That would be me.
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  and I went to get for you my book of
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  uh
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  my book of Abraham Lincoln
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  and it's not here. It's uh
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  I must not have brought it in. But I do
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  have my presidential wit and wisdom book
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  which covers many many presidents each
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  and everyone. We even have some
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  Trumpster. I don't think Biden's in this
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  book. Um, not only would he not have
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  anything intelligent to say, he uh
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  because these are mostly statements that
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  they said, but I think it ends with uh
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  Well, does it end with Barack Hussein
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  Obama? Why do we have to add that? I
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  don't know. I would have swore I had
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  some Trump in here. Well, that's no
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  good. Yep. this book I because I bought
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  it pre the old Trumpster the first time.
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  I've had this book a long time. But I
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  want to share with you some u
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  some [clears throat]
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  uh Abraham Lincoln. And if if Abraham
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  was a girl, she'd be Abraham Lincoln.
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  Remember that? From Wayne's World.
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  Wayne's World. Wayne's World. Uh born
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  February 12 of 1809.
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  died April 15th on tax day 1865.
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  He was the uh 16th president.
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  He was a president from 1861 to 65. Was
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  a republican
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  and uh
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  what he said was one of his key
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  statements.
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  If slavery is not wrong,
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  nothing is wrong. That's very good uh
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  comment.
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  Character is like a tree and reputation
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  like its shadow. The shadow is what we
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  think of it.
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  The tree is the real thing.
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  Now that's deep. I like that. The best
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  thing about the future is that it only
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  comes one day at a time. That's a pretty
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  good one from the old Abraham Lincoln.
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  The Lord prefers commonlooking people.
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  That is the reason he makes so many of
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  them.
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  I love it.
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  Ah, as I would not be a slave, so I
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  would not be a master. This expresses my
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  idea of democracy.
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  With malice toward none, with charity
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  for all, with firmness in the right, as
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  God gives us to see the right, let us
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  strive on to finish the work we are in,
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  to bind up the nation's wounds.
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  I claim not to have controlled events
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  but confess plainly that events have
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  controlled me.
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  Four score and seven years ago our
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  fathers brought forth on this continent
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  a new nation
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  conceived in liberty and dedicated to
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  the proposition that all men are created
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  equal. Do you remember when uh Bill and
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  Ted did that in their final uh speech?
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  From these honored dead, we take
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  increased devotion to that cause for
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  which they gave the last full measure of
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  devotion. that we here highly resolve
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  that these dead shall not have died in
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  vain, that this nation under God shall
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  have a new birth of freedom, and that
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  government of the people, by the people,
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  for the people shall not perish from the
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  earth. And on
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  days like today I think it is important
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  that people remember that um that uh
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  people have died for what we have um
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  people are you know dying even today you
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  know it's not a there you know there's
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  always some action going on that is why
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  I personally say such things I do about
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  the government it requires people like
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  me to uh point out stuff. You may not
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  agree with it all. That's okay. You
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  don't have to. That's the beauty of
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  America. I should be able to tell you
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  what I think is wrong. You should be
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  able to say what you think is wrong. And
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  we ought to be able to come up with a
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  consensus.
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  And consensus has been gone for at least
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  the last little while. You know, last
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  geez,
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  pick it since the collapse of Soviet
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  Union is my argument. I'd say it's from
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  the 90s. And so, uh, you know, our
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  mistakes, the biggest ones have been
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  created in the last 30 years. Of course,
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  I've been an adult during that time. And
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  the other time, I only learn about them
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  from history. And, you know, there's
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  some sort of nostalgia in history. So,
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  that's not quite fair. But, I've lived
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  this, and I'm telling you that uh I
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  still stand for the proposition that our
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  government isn't supposed to be this
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  way. And the government is supposed to
• 22:13
  be by the people. For the people, you
• 22:17
  know, it's it's for the people, not for
• 22:21
  um
• 22:22
  you know, somebody else. You know,
• 22:25
  that's nonsense. It's not not for those
• 22:28
  that run it, not for those that run it.
• 22:34
  A government of the people, not the not
• 22:37
  the bureaucrats. people.
• 22:40
  Bureaucrats are not people. You can't be
• 22:43
  saying, "Oh, bureaucrats are people,
• 22:44
  too." No, they're not. If they were
• 22:47
  people, they'd understand other people.
• 22:50
  [laughter] So, I don't believe they're
• 22:52
  people. That might be harsh, but uh uh
• 22:54
  no, that's that's not nice because
• 22:56
  that's what people say about uh
• 22:59
  Russians, you know, the the Ukrainians
• 23:01
  calling them mors and stuff like that
• 23:03
  and uh and all the that goes on
• 23:05
  about that. And uh we have turned into a
• 23:08
  world of name callers
• 23:12
  and uh for my part I know I do it
• 23:14
  sometimes but I would you know strongly
• 23:17
  encourage people to to be if that's all
• 23:20
  you got is name calling you got nothing.
• 23:22
  And so uh you know a bureaucrat that is
• 23:25
  a real name. I have bad connotations
• 23:27
  with it but that's a that's a legitimate
• 23:29
  thing. you know, you can't, you know,
• 23:31
  call people.
• 23:34
  What is a person if he's an
• 23:37
  That's that's not a person. That's an
• 23:39
  And then then it the the
• 23:41
  connotation is exactly there. And it's
• 23:44
  the same thing. You know, he's a stupid,
• 23:47
  you know, he's just stupid. You know,
• 23:48
  that's these are these are offensive.
• 23:50
  These and we should try not to do those
• 23:53
  kind of things. And I will try to be
• 23:54
  better about that because here's a
• 23:56
  wellspoken president who would say
• 23:59
  things like this. You have heard the
• 24:03
  story
• 24:05
  about the man who was tred and feathered
• 24:08
  and carried out of town on a rail. A man
• 24:11
  in that crowd asked him how he liked it.
• 24:14
  His reply was, "If it was not for the
• 24:18
  honor of the thing, he would much rather
• 24:21
  walk." [laughter]
• 24:23
  I always like that one. So, you're the
• 24:25
  little woman who wrote the book that
• 24:27
  made this great war. He was talking
• 24:30
  about Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uh, such
• 24:34
  will be a great lesson of peace,
• 24:37
  teaching men what they cannot take by
• 24:40
  election. Neither can they take it by
• 24:44
  war.
• 24:46
  That's a good one. The central idea of
• 24:49
  secession is the essence of anarchy.
• 24:54
  When you've got an elephant by the hind
• 24:57
  leg and he's trying to run away, it's
• 25:00
  best to let him run.
• 25:04
  That's a good idea. I think I would like
• 25:06
  that. I also cheated while the song was
• 25:08
  playing. Made myself some coffee, so
• 25:10
  pardon.
• 25:15
  That's good coffee. Uh, let's see. I
• 25:18
  wish some of you would tell me the brand
• 25:20
  of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would
• 25:23
  like to send a barrel of it to my other
• 25:26
  generals. [laughter]
• 25:29
  I love it.
• 25:32
  We shall nobly save or meanly lose the
• 25:37
  best hope of Earth. Now, that's a good
• 25:40
  one. [snorts]
• 25:42
  When the hour comes for dealing with
• 25:45
  slavery,
• 25:47
  I trust I will be willing to do my duty,
• 25:51
  though it cost my life.
• 25:54
  And it did. To sin by silence when they
• 25:58
  should protest makes cowards of men.
• 26:04
  Speak up. In other words, I've been told
• 26:07
  I was on the road to hell, but I had no
• 26:11
  idea it was just a mile down the road
• 26:14
  with a dome on it. [laughter]
• 26:17
  Now, that is awesome.
• 26:20
  I've been I'm going repeat that because
• 26:22
  everybody knew this is today's
• 26:23
  statement. I've been told I was on the
• 26:26
  road to hell, but I had no idea it was
• 26:29
  just a mile down the road with a dome on
• 26:31
  it. [laughter]
• 26:33
  Yes, that's sweet.
• 26:37
  If you once forfeit the confidence of
• 26:40
  your fellow citizens, you can never
• 26:42
  regain their respect and esteem.
• 26:46
  It is true that you may fool all of the
• 26:50
  people some of the time. You can even
• 26:53
  fool some of the people all of the time,
• 26:56
  but you can't fool all of the people all
• 27:00
  the time.
• 27:02
  And that is the last quote I have from
• 27:04
  Babraham. And uh I have other
• 27:08
  presidents, but uh you know what, his
• 27:11
  birthday was the nearest I I and and I
• 27:13
  remember back when it was uh President's
• 27:16
  Day and I think Washington, what's
• 27:19
  Washington? And it was a different when
• 27:21
  I was a kid in uh grade school. You'd
• 27:23
  get President's Day off for Washington's
• 27:26
  birthday and then you'd get it for u
• 27:30
  um
• 27:31
  Lincoln's birthday. And they kept trying
• 27:34
  to create new holidays [laughter]
• 27:37
  so people wouldn't have to go to school
• 27:39
  and uh they would um uh everybody get a
• 27:43
  holiday off. Well, George Washington was
• 27:46
  born February 22 of 1732
• 27:50
  and he died December 12 of 1799.
• 27:56
  First president from 1789 to 1797. He's
• 28:00
  a federalist.
• 28:02
  And uh I'll give you one quote from him
• 28:04
  just because. uh labor to keep alive in
• 28:08
  your heart that little spark of
• 28:11
  celestial fire called conscience.
• 28:16
  And that is the name of that tune. Now,
• 28:18
  I brought brought with me, too. I bought
• 28:20
  this at a Chinese festival that I went
• 28:23
  to. It was really cool. They used to at
• 28:25
  the uh St. Louis um I forget what it's
• 28:28
  called. Um [clears throat] is it the St.
• 28:30
  Louis Botanical Garden? The Somebody
• 28:33
  Botanical Garden? I forget who the
• 28:34
  important people were that owned it, but
• 28:37
  uh I'm a member still at the botanical
• 28:39
  garden. It's one of my favorite things
• 28:41
  to do. I I I I like to go there and uh I
• 28:45
  I used to be they would have this uh
• 28:49
  Chinese festival and I went to it a
• 28:51
  couple of years and then I went to it a
• 28:53
  third fourth year and it turned to some
• 28:56
  cosplay thing and everybody's wandering
• 28:57
  around in uh like little kids dressed up
• 29:01
  as Pokemon that you know it was weird.
• 29:03
  It was totally different. But the first
• 29:05
  couple of times it was all art, all
• 29:08
  culture, you know, it was really cool.
• 29:10
  And the the botanical garden has some
• 29:12
  very good uh good shows up there.
• 29:15
  Anyway,
• 29:16
  I bought some art, you know, some really
• 29:18
  cool uh um embroidered uh stitch work
• 29:23
  that was of this huge stork rice
• 29:26
  patties. I mean, it was really cool. and
• 29:28
  I still have them somewhere, but I've
• 29:30
  banged up the frame some and I've got to
• 29:32
  get them repaired, but those are
• 29:34
  probably worth some money these days.
• 29:36
  There's a former state rep who stole my
• 29:39
  my uh well, I'm 90% certain it was him.
• 29:44
  You know, the uh Sylv is his name. He
• 29:47
  took my he took a a a photo. I used to
• 29:52
  buy artwork and uh this one magically
• 29:55
  disappeared when his wife stole
• 29:57
  everything in my office as well. And
• 30:00
  there was a picture of the uh the
• 30:03
  signing of the capitulation between
• 30:06
  Grant and Lee, you know, the signing of
• 30:08
  the papers surrender documents and uh
• 30:11
  going forward and it was a one of one of
• 30:13
  uh it was an oil painting. It was really
• 30:15
  nice. was original and it was nice and I
• 30:17
  I got the certificate of authenticity,
• 30:19
  bought it at some uh charity thing and
• 30:21
  he coveted that thing. Every time he saw
• 30:24
  it in my office and I left for a bit and
• 30:26
  the guy snatched it. I know it was him.
• 30:28
  So if anybody knows uh Sylvie and he's
• 30:31
  got it hanging in his office, somebody
• 30:33
  snatch it and give it to me cuz it's
• 30:35
  mine. And uh but anyway, I also had in
• 30:38
  my office cuz I bought at the Chinese
• 30:40
  festival as I got distracted by artwork
• 30:43
  at the at the Chinese festival. I bought
• 30:46
  something that a little red book that
• 30:49
  the Chinese carried around with them
• 30:50
  for, you know, there are hundreds of
• 30:52
  millions of these things running around
• 30:54
  China and uh they still uh remake them.
• 30:57
  They sell them in uh in shops and it's
• 31:00
  the same thing and it's called
• 31:02
  quotations from chairman Maong and uh
• 31:06
  here it is. I'm not going to read any
• 31:08
  quotes to it. It's President's Day, you
• 31:10
  know. I'm not That's a But I forgot I
• 31:12
  had this cool little book. Um I've been
• 31:15
  setting up my office and uh had these
• 31:18
  crates of books and uh I had a couple So
• 31:20
  I'll give you one more ridiculous story.
• 31:23
  I had a a copy of a book in my
• 31:26
  [clears throat] office and I I would uh
• 31:28
  it was on my um I would leave it out
• 31:31
  while uh clients were waiting to come in
• 31:34
  and speak to me. I would have little
• 31:36
  books out on the table and uh you know
• 31:40
  like this presidential wit and wisdom
• 31:42
  and my uh I wouldn't put the chairman
• 31:44
  Mau out there. It's probably a bad deal
• 31:46
  or put my uh um Soviet Union flags and
• 31:50
  stuff that I collected over the years
• 31:51
  out there. bad plan in your American
• 31:54
  office. But uh I put out there a book
• 31:58
  called uh How to Be a Gentleman. How to
• 32:02
  be a gentleman. It had little things
• 32:04
  like that uh that you would go to a
• 32:06
  different page and you'd say a gentleman
• 32:08
  does thusly, you know, and you'd put it.
• 32:10
  It was an old book. It was a cool book.
• 32:13
  It was a new version of an old book that
• 32:15
  how how to train to be a gentleman. And
• 32:18
  it was a historic little book. So one
• 32:20
  day um I I I said well you know what I
• 32:23
  said you know one of my kids or somebody
• 32:25
  was in there. I was like go get that
• 32:26
  book how to be a gentleman in uh uh you
• 32:29
  know you need to study up on some of
• 32:31
  that because [laughter]
• 32:33
  obviously I have failed you as a son and
• 32:37
  uh go get that book and read. He goes
• 32:39
  out the book's not there. And uh
• 32:42
  somebody stole my how to be a gentleman
• 32:45
  book. and you'd sit there and go, "Now,
• 32:47
  how in the world [snorts] can you steal
• 32:50
  a book about how to become a gentleman
• 32:54
  if it's based in theft of stealing the
• 32:57
  book?" Yeah, that's going to work, isn't
• 32:59
  it? Anyway, I'm truly uh all over the
• 33:02
  map as usual and it's only Monday. Geez,
• 33:06
  what's going to happen um with the rest
• 33:09
  of the week? Well, the important news of
• 33:12
  the weekend, of the last several days,
• 33:16
  in fact, is the Munich Security
• 33:19
  Conference. And this Munich Security
• 33:21
  Conference, uh, notably absent in my
• 33:24
  humble opinion, was the old Trumpster.
• 33:27
  Uh but you could argue that he was a
• 33:30
  Davos and he gave that speech that uh
• 33:35
  pretty offensive to the rest of the
• 33:37
  world leaders in in my humble opinion
• 33:39
  you know coming in he's he's looked at
• 33:41
  more and more as a doineering sort of uh
• 33:45
  you know u emperor of the world pe
• 33:48
  people are talking about how his new
• 33:52
  global order is one emperor. No longer
• 33:56
  is there even a consensus between
• 33:59
  uh NATO or the or not even NATO but the
• 34:04
  EU leaders and Trump who or and the US
• 34:08
  president who control the UN. They
• 34:11
  control the markets. They control the
• 34:13
  IMF. They control the World Bank. They
• 34:16
  control all the flow of money. They
• 34:18
  decide what you know they all talk about
• 34:21
  the rules-based order but the rules
• 34:23
  never apply to them that group. Okay.
• 34:26
  Now the big complaint is that instead of
• 34:29
  it being that group of nu wells who uh
• 34:33
  just seize power and tell the rest of
• 34:36
  the world what to do but at least it was
• 34:38
  dominated it was dominated by the US but
• 34:40
  they sometimes pretended to listen to
• 34:44
  other countries and the leaders of other
• 34:46
  countries. Now, we don't even do that.
• 34:49
  We have Marco Rubio go out and on
• 34:52
  Trump's behalf and dictate to the world
• 34:54
  what the world is going to hear. We
• 34:56
  seize uh Venezuela. We threaten to take
• 35:00
  uh take uh Greenland. We tell Canada,
• 35:03
  "Put up or shut up." And there is no
• 35:06
  longer Hey, the trouble with the
• 35:08
  corporate raider is he will always be a
• 35:12
  corporate raider. Now, there's a great
• 35:14
  deal of respect I have for the corporate
• 35:16
  raider. That's capitalism, friends and
• 35:18
  neighbors, and more power to him. But
• 35:21
  sometimes in the polit political world,
• 35:24
  it doesn't go the same. Do I think Trump
• 35:25
  will be seen as a great president in the
• 35:27
  future? Will people be reading quotes
• 35:29
  from the old Trumpster uh on a radio
• 35:32
  program uh uh how many years uh it was
• 35:35
  1865, 160 years after his death and say
• 35:38
  here, you know, here was a guy you can
• 35:40
  read commentary from. I don't know. Um I
• 35:44
  I I think that he's done some fantastic
• 35:46
  things. I I truly wish he would stay
• 35:49
  looking inward and not try to take over
• 35:52
  the world. I don't like the methods.
• 35:55
  Some of the results are not so horrible.
• 35:57
  I despise what he has done in Venezuela.
• 36:01
  I think it was BS by any stretch. Uh you
• 36:04
  know, and Rubio went and pushed that
• 36:06
  same sales sales uh button trying to
• 36:10
  float a narrative. It's only a
• 36:12
  narrative. It just because he's a he's a
• 36:15
  a Republican and it may have worked out
• 36:17
  well for the United States doesn't mean
• 36:19
  it's not a narrative. It is. And
• 36:21
  [snorts] u narco terrorism. Yeah.
• 36:24
  Uh-huh. That's why you did it. It was
• 36:26
  the drug. You're trying to save the
• 36:28
  people of America. Yeah. Right. You're
• 36:32
  stealing oil. That's [laughter] what
• 36:34
  you're doing. And you get And you're
• 36:36
  stealing it from who? From China. Why?
• 36:40
  because you're the big dog on the block
• 36:42
  and China put a h 100red billion in
• 36:44
  there and you can steal it without
• 36:46
  really stealing it. And that's what
• 36:48
  we've done and we being the United
• 36:51
  States I think is wrong. It's improper
• 36:54
  and if we do anything like that in
• 36:56
  Greenland it's going to be the exact
• 36:57
  same wrong. Okay. And on this
• 37:00
  President's Day I think we should think
• 37:02
  about that. And what I wanted to do was
• 37:04
  go back
• 37:07
  to so [clears throat] 1991. So the the I
• 37:11
  forget what year the Munich uh peace
• 37:13
  conf or peace Munich security conference
• 37:16
  began. I want to say like 62 63 it came
• 37:20
  up and what was the big alleged threat
• 37:23
  at that time. So after World War II
• 37:25
  history in World War II was that after
• 37:28
  that now Germany was the enemy. Germany
• 37:34
  stayed we like to say it was one man it
• 37:37
  was only Hitler. That ain't true.
• 37:40
  Friends and neighbors, they supported
• 37:42
  him and they were all over it. And when
• 37:45
  it was done, they all wiped their hand.
• 37:46
  Oh, no. It wasn't me. You know, the the
• 37:49
  people who don't say anything, but go
• 37:51
  along to get along, right? And they go
• 37:54
  along in a in a serious way to take over
• 37:57
  the world. Don't tell me Hitler did it
• 37:59
  all by himself. Oh, yeah. He did it all
• 38:02
  by himself. That's that it was a bad
• 38:05
  society. But what did they do
• 38:06
  immediately afterward? Immediately
• 38:09
  they knew that Russia killed all they
• 38:13
  wiped out the Soviet army. But what have
• 38:17
  we been pumping ever since if it wasn't
• 38:20
  for America?
• 38:23
  Hitler, you know, Hitler would have won.
• 38:25
  That's not true. Would have taken
• 38:26
  longer, but he was on the he was on his
• 38:30
  heels anyway. And he was on his heels
• 38:33
  due to 26 million Soviet losses. Okay.
• 38:38
  And he he was on his heels. He was on he
• 38:40
  was on he was going to be overrun either
• 38:43
  way. And we came in at the end and
• 38:47
  helped mop up and then took all of the
• 38:50
  credit and then
• 38:53
  realized that oh by the way the power in
• 38:58
  Europe is no longer Germany
• 39:01
  is no longer Spain no longer France. not
• 39:04
  remotely England, it's Russia
• 39:08
  and they are going to come. And so what
• 39:11
  did we do? We created an enemy out of
• 39:14
  them. And so the the security conference
• 39:17
  in Munich came up and immediately began
• 39:20
  as had already been going on for nearly
• 39:22
  20 years since the end of the the Second
• 39:24
  World War.
• 39:28
  A new enemy. The new enemy Russia. the
• 39:32
  new enemy, the Soviet Union. And the
• 39:35
  Soviet Union didn't start that war, but
• 39:37
  that's what people like to think. Who is
• 39:40
  demonized after World War II?
• 39:43
  Russia. [laughter]
• 39:45
  USSR. They're de They're the demons,
• 39:47
  right? They gave that What did they do
• 39:52
  except defend themselves all the way and
• 39:54
  defeat the army? They took a a stand and
• 39:57
  and then defeated defeated the Nazi army
• 39:59
  and uh all the way defeated the Germans
• 40:02
  and we helped at the end. I'm not
• 40:04
  claiming we didn't have a big role in
• 40:06
  it, you know, creating a second front,
• 40:08
  but there was no front without the
• 40:11
  Americans. That's true. That front was
• 40:13
  long dead and the and the Germans knew
• 40:15
  it. Everybody knew it. And uh when we
• 40:18
  came in and and took the slaughters that
• 40:20
  they took on the Normandy beaches and
• 40:22
  whatnot that um that [clears throat] was
• 40:25
  a it was definitely a turning point, but
• 40:28
  it was a turning point in creating a
• 40:30
  second front, not in winning the war. So
• 40:34
  check your history if you don't believe
• 40:36
  that. Anyway, the Munich Security
• 40:38
  Conference started as has always been,
• 40:42
  this is going to sound terrible, but
• 40:44
  it's always been. My history of
• 40:45
  listening to it began in the '9s and you
• 40:49
  know I pay attention to it. I um I
• 40:51
  always you know see the notable speeches
• 40:53
  stuff like that. It's easier these days
• 40:55
  cuz you can just watch his speeches. It
• 40:58
  was kind of hard to get them before. You
• 41:00
  couldn't really do it. But now in
• 41:02
  today's uh fingertips everything's at
• 41:04
  your u disposal. You can listen to the
• 41:07
  full speech of Rubio without having to
• 41:09
  hunt for a week to find it. You can find
• 41:11
  20 different versions or 20 different
• 41:13
  people trying to get clicks online from
• 41:15
  it, you know, by uploading it. Always go
• 41:18
  to the official one if at all possible.
• 41:20
  I listen to the one from the uh
• 41:25
  secretary or secretary of state's uh
• 41:27
  website is the one I'm at.
• 41:32
  So the backdrop of the Munich Security
• 41:35
  Conference has always been historically
• 41:38
  the exact same every year. People get
• 41:41
  there and they talk about, you know,
• 41:42
  where we're going, what the big threat
• 41:45
  is. The big threat's always Russia. And
• 41:47
  and and you know, what are we going to
• 41:48
  do? Build more weapons, build more
• 41:51
  armies. We're going to take care of
• 41:52
  ourselves. US is going to dominate.
• 41:55
  We're going to take care of, you know,
• 41:56
  whoever is there that gets invited. They
• 41:59
  stopped inviting Russia. So now it is no
• 42:02
  conference on security. It's a place to
• 42:06
  get together in glad hand. And in to
• 42:09
  some respects it's always been that way.
• 42:12
  And so the reason I wanted to talk about
• 42:15
  this is I very much enjoy on Sunday
• 42:20
  nights uh putting on in the background
• 42:22
  while doing whatever it is I'm doing.
• 42:24
  Last night it was cleaning the kitchen.
• 42:28
  But uh I was listening to in the
• 42:30
  background the TV uh and Vladimir Soliv
• 42:35
  his great political program that I
• 42:37
  really like to watch and it's the format
• 42:39
  that they speak of. Um, and Soliv is uh
• 42:43
  uh obviously pro-Russia, but uh they got
• 42:46
  to talking about it and so I had already
• 42:48
  heard Rubio's speech
• 42:52
  and was thinking how crap it was and I
• 42:55
  was like, man, that's it. That's your
• 42:58
  commentary.
• 43:00
  [laughter] And I was less than impressed
• 43:02
  by that. It's like, all right, well,
• 43:04
  gez, why don't we just roll out George
• 43:07
  Bush and Dick Cheney uh 2.0 and know and
• 43:10
  call it Marco Rubio, you know, we're
• 43:12
  doing the same thing and uh you know and
• 43:14
  and everybody got together. The focus
• 43:16
  this time in uh in um uh Munich was and
• 43:22
  Munich's a beautiful city, you know,
• 43:24
  Hoffbrow House there. I had some good
• 43:26
  times there and uh I just love Munich. I
• 43:29
  love Bavaria, you know, I'm Bavarian for
• 43:31
  God's sake, Austrian. And uh so my
• 43:34
  family's German, Austrian, and so uh
• 43:37
  from that area in fact. And uh so I love
• 43:40
  that area and I love the culture. I love
• 43:42
  all of that. It'd be great if I got to
• 43:44
  go every year and and uh you know, see
• 43:48
  some uh some Bavaria. And I think half
• 43:51
  of the time that's all they're going
• 43:52
  for. They aren't doing anything
• 43:54
  legitimate except getting together and
• 43:57
  yanking each other's Johnson's. It's
• 44:00
  that's it. you know, they get together
• 44:01
  and, oh geez, life is great, isn't it?
• 44:04
  Boy, look what we're doing. We're here
• 44:06
  taking over the world, you know, Pinky,
• 44:09
  how's it going? And uh you you just it's
• 44:13
  it's the same old crap every single
• 44:17
  year. It was only entertaining in two of
• 44:21
  the last 20, 30 years. The rest has all
• 44:24
  been the same platitudes, the same, oh
• 44:27
  jeez, the rules-based order. Oh, gee,
• 44:30
  globalism. Uh, Dick Dick Cheney gets
• 44:33
  we're going to we're going to uh take
• 44:35
  over the world. We're going to spend
• 44:37
  more money on weapons on defense. We're
• 44:40
  going to we got the military in Europe.
• 44:42
  The same old crap. This is defense.
• 44:45
  Allah America, right? Running NATO,
• 44:48
  running the world, in fact. And so, they
• 44:51
  just don't invite the people. They don't
• 44:53
  want to be there. So, they didn't invite
• 44:55
  Russia. They didn't invite Iran this
• 44:57
  year. uh China was invited but fringe
• 45:02
  [laughter] they're not they're not put
• 45:04
  in and I got a little bit to report on
• 45:05
  on him and and it just the
• 45:10
  it's supposed to be a security
• 45:12
  conference and it's not and who pointed
• 45:15
  that out seriously now we all knew it
• 45:18
  anyway we knew it was where they it's
• 45:20
  another political boondoggle where they
• 45:22
  get together and spend money and and
• 45:25
  congratulate each other on being in
• 45:26
  charge that's what they're doing and
• 45:28
  there you all dreams we're in charge and
• 45:30
  this is great and uh well let's talk
• 45:33
  about uh you know I I watched afterward
• 45:36
  and before I do an analysis of two
• 45:39
  notable speeches which I intend to do uh
• 45:41
  quickly I want to go through uh some
• 45:45
  commentary on that because like I said
• 45:48
  uh doing dishes, cleaning the kitchen uh
• 45:50
  putting away some crap finally that has
• 45:53
  been sitting in uh packing boxes for a
• 45:56
  long time. had to get rid of it. Uh I
• 45:59
  was listening to Vladimir Solivan
• 46:01
  company and he and his format I've told
• 46:03
  you about it before but the format I
• 46:05
  just love and I love the format and I
• 46:08
  also love that he sometimes gets out of
• 46:10
  control and he did this time he was
• 46:12
  yelling about uh you know he calls him
• 46:16
  bad names [laughter] in Russian. I get
• 46:19
  all of my bad names from Soliv where I
• 46:22
  get to learn learn how to say certain
• 46:24
  evil things in Russian and uh no that's
• 46:27
  that's not true but uh some of it's from
• 46:29
  the movies and but he um he's pretty
• 46:32
  brutal and he was pretty brutal about
• 46:34
  the uh security conference and so when
• 46:37
  Soliv opened his program he wasn't
• 46:40
  improvising the structure was you know
• 46:42
  was he's like a prosecutor right he
• 46:45
  didn't begin with troop movements you
• 46:47
  know in Ukraine or the most recent
• 46:49
  battlefield. For me, I thought this was
• 46:52
  all self- congratulatory Ukraine heavy
• 46:56
  stuff. Once again, we're right back in
• 46:59
  it. Rubio was right in the middle of it.
• 47:01
  All it is is we're pumping more war this
• 47:04
  time in Ukraine, right? Uh but Soliv
• 47:08
  began with 1991
• 47:11
  in his analysis. And that choice alone
• 47:14
  reveals the framework he wants the
• 47:16
  audience to listen to. the present
• 47:19
  cannot be understood according to him
• 47:22
  and and I agree with this without the
• 47:25
  collapse of the Soviet Union and the
• 47:27
  geopolitical retreat that followed. He
• 47:30
  reminds viewers that Russia did not
• 47:32
  fight to preserve the Warsaw Pact. And
• 47:35
  that's true, too. They were told, well,
• 47:38
  we we'll get, you know what, I'm only
• 47:40
  going to stay with what what the summary
• 47:42
  of their argument on this political show
• 47:45
  in Russian, right?
• 47:47
  He reminded them, everyone, that Eastern
• 47:50
  Europe
• 47:52
  didn't require
• 47:54
  liberation or war to detach itself from
• 47:58
  Moscow. He emphasized that Soviet forces
• 48:02
  withdrew from East Germany and central
• 48:06
  Europe without demanding
• 48:09
  occupation zones, retaliatory alliances,
• 48:12
  anything like that. They allowed
• 48:16
  Hitler's Germany
• 48:19
  to reunify peacefully.
• 48:22
  Now think about that. Would it be the
• 48:25
  same if say the democratic order in
• 48:30
  Europe had uh had uh
• 48:34
  uh collapsed? You know, would it be that
• 48:38
  way? Would we would would West Germany
• 48:42
  have been allowed to unite with East
• 48:45
  Germany if the roles were reversed?
• 48:47
  Clearly, no. You Oh, gez. No. No. No.
• 48:51
  You can't do that. You know, we're we're
• 48:53
  we're democracies. Those Russians, they
• 48:55
  weren't democracies. That was a Soviet
• 48:57
  Union, right?
• 48:58
  Germany was able allowed by Russia with
• 49:02
  Russian and Warsaw packed consent when
• 49:05
  George Bush one said let this happen and
• 49:10
  we in NATO won't expand an inch to the
• 49:13
  east that those those are true events
• 49:17
  they happened and the Russians said all
• 49:20
  right we'll trust you and can we be you
• 49:23
  know maybe we can economically push
• 49:26
  Right.
• 49:28
  The Cold War ended without a continental
• 49:31
  bloodbath. There was no bloodbath. His
• 49:34
  argument is simple but powerful. Russia
• 49:36
  stepped back. Now, Russia didn't
• 49:39
  necessarily have to. They still had a
• 49:41
  very strong military. They had 300,000
• 49:44
  forces in East Germany for God's sake.
• 49:47
  And uh you know, we had this the similar
• 49:49
  thing. They were deescalating. Nobody
• 49:52
  could afford that. We kept on going
• 49:54
  anyway and let Poland come in. Let I
• 49:57
  mean, think about this. Who else was
• 49:59
  allowed to uh do whatever they wanted
• 50:01
  afterward?
• 50:05
  Is that capitulation? Are you going to
• 50:06
  say, "Oh, but they lost. They didn't
• 50:08
  have the ability." Maybe in the '9s they
• 50:10
  didn't have the ability.
• 50:13
  But it still doesn't just because we
• 50:15
  didn't act according to what we said we
• 50:17
  would, treaty or no treaty, doesn't mean
• 50:21
  that it was justified, doesn't mean we
• 50:24
  didn't do it. Because Putin asked uh um
• 50:29
  what do you call it? Clinton and several
• 50:32
  others if they could join and was told
• 50:34
  no, could be part of NATO. They they
• 50:37
  they tried to be there. So there's
• 50:39
  there's a lot of memory of this on the
• 50:41
  other side of the world. Trust me, they
• 50:44
  don't trust us, nor [laughter] should
• 50:46
  they because everything we say is
• 50:49
  platitudes and stuff like that from
• 50:51
  Rubio at uh or or uh similar at the
• 50:54
  Munich security conferences. And so the
• 50:56
  argument is simple. Russia stepped back
• 50:59
  and from that premise flows uh uh you
• 51:03
  know a a huge grievance, a huge root
• 51:07
  cause of Ukraine today. NATO stepping
• 51:12
  forward
• 51:13
  9 to 13 times dependent on how you
• 51:16
  calculate it. They stepped forward and
• 51:19
  continued to trample on what we said
• 51:21
  we'd never do but what they said they
• 51:25
  would never do. So
• 51:28
  later talks about encroachment
• 51:32
  collapse to enlargement
• 51:34
  reciprocity is denied. He frames the '9s
• 51:38
  not as Russian aggression but Russian
• 51:40
  accommodation. That's true. You could
• 51:42
  argue well they couldn't do anything. So
• 51:44
  what did we do? We pressed our advantage
• 51:46
  that we took advantage for sure
• 51:49
  economically and otherwise. He suggests
• 51:51
  the Western Alliance interpreted the
• 51:53
  Soviet collapse not as an opportunity to
• 51:56
  design an inclusive security
• 51:58
  architecture, but as an opening to
• 52:01
  extend its military block eastward. All
• 52:05
  true? Now, historians can argue about
• 52:07
  what was promised in 1990. Some will say
• 52:09
  that informal assurances were made about
• 52:12
  NATO not moving one inch eastward.
• 52:14
  Others insist that no binding agreement
• 52:17
  existed. But the argument of the
• 52:19
  Russians
• 52:20
  bears
• 52:22
  certain repeating. You don't have to
• 52:24
  have a treaty to for people to have an
• 52:26
  institutional memory of what was said.
• 52:29
  And and Bush one truly said not one inch
• 52:33
  eastward. And he said that and our
• 52:37
  leaders their words don't matter.
• 52:40
  They're lawyers afterward and go well
• 52:42
  geez you know we said that. But that was
• 52:45
  posturing. That was positioning. That
• 52:48
  was uh what is Trump's the art of the
• 52:51
  deal. That's the art of the deal. It's
• 52:53
  the Russians that were stupid for not
• 52:55
  forcing that into a treaty. Why would
• 52:57
  you have to if it's publicly stated by a
• 53:00
  a a member of
• 53:04
  the uh the the chief member really of uh
• 53:09
  the Western Alliance.
• 53:12
  So, it's not about treaty language. It's
• 53:15
  about perception. Trust is not built on
• 53:17
  signed documents. It's built on
• 53:19
  expectations.
• 53:21
  And those expectations were definitely
• 53:24
  violated. Um enlargement. NATO expanded
• 53:28
  in 1999 to include Poland, Hungary,
• 53:32
  Czech Republic. In 2004, the Baltic
• 53:34
  states, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia,
• 53:37
  Slovenia. Later expansions continue and
• 53:40
  each move represents the ratchet turning
• 53:44
  one direction only. He emphasizes
• 53:47
  geography. He references maps. He talks
• 53:49
  about uh the buffer territories now as
• 53:53
  an alliance. He talks about the Poles
• 53:55
  putting air bases in u Romania and you
• 54:00
  all the crap that the Soviets did in uh
• 54:03
  the Eastern block wars packed countries
• 54:06
  the UN is doing in the other way to make
• 54:09
  sure that Russia stays an enemy and then
• 54:12
  now and they're obviously in 2004
• 54:15
  they're courting Georgia and Ukraine.
• 54:19
  They said they will be members. They are
• 54:21
  they said it just you know screw you
• 54:23
  they're going to be and so uh his first
• 54:26
  crew of panelists the way the show goes
• 54:28
  is it's three and a half hours long and
• 54:29
  they have two sets of panelists and so
• 54:32
  six eight guys that get in the room and
• 54:34
  they each get to go around the room and
• 54:35
  say their piece.
• 54:37
  So the first panelist they reinforced
• 54:40
  this interpretation. They referenced
• 54:41
  2008 Bucharest. Oh it was 2008 I'm sorry
• 54:45
  not 2004 where NATO declared that
• 54:48
  Ukraine and Georgia will eventually
• 54:50
  become members. That declaration
• 54:52
  transformed what had been theoretical
• 54:54
  expansion to a direct signal that
• 54:57
  Russia's immediate neighborhood was in
• 54:59
  play. They're trying to surround the old
• 55:01
  Soviet Union, the old satellites of
• 55:03
  Soviet Union with old members of the of
• 55:07
  the Soviet Union itself, not not Poland,
• 55:11
  not not uh I don't know, Romania, but
• 55:16
  act Georgia, which was part of the
• 55:18
  Soviet Union, uh Ukraine, part of the
• 55:21
  Soviet Union. They signaled, "We're
• 55:22
  coming. We're taking those countries
• 55:24
  from you." And so Moscow interprets that
• 55:27
  membership promise as a warning rather
• 55:30
  than a gesture. Russia wasn't going to
• 55:32
  be invited. They've been told you're not
• 55:34
  invited, but we'll take everybody else.
• 55:37
  So it's important to understand this
• 55:38
  perspective. Uh even if you disagree
• 55:41
  with its conclusion, it links expansion,
• 55:44
  declarations, reaction, and continuous
• 55:46
  chain of events. The continuity is uh
• 55:50
  what Soliv was talking about. And so
• 55:53
  from so the then he pivots to 2014. But
• 55:57
  I want to pivot he pivoted to u uh the
• 56:02
  facts surrounding Ukraine which they lie
• 56:04
  about even today. Even the NATO
• 56:06
  secretary general gets on there um again
• 56:10
  yesterday or uh over the over the
• 56:12
  weekend at the Munich Security
• 56:13
  Conference says absolutely no reasons at
• 56:16
  all for the uh invasion he calls it of
• 56:21
  the Dawnbass by Russia. No provocations
• 56:24
  of any kind is what he said. Nonsense.
• 56:27
  And uh paraphrasing of course, but
• 56:30
  that's what he said. And I I think I
• 56:32
  have the quote further in my materials
• 56:34
  here, but that is crap. People want to
• 56:37
  still forget that Ukraine itself was
• 56:40
  bombing its own two territories in the
• 56:43
  Donbass, Luganska Denetsk. They were it
• 56:46
  was bombing the crap out of them from
• 56:48
  2014 after Maidan, which was staged by
• 56:52
  the West to get rid of Yanukovich. And
• 56:54
  none of this would have happened if if
• 56:56
  we hadn't interfered there. That's true.
• 56:59
  you know, uh it's well the likelihood is
• 57:01
  slim slim that it would have happened
• 57:04
  because Yanukovich was was more
• 57:06
  centrally uh not against Russia, not
• 57:10
  against NATO. He wanted to be more
• 57:12
  neutral and uh no that can't be. We need
• 57:16
  Ukraine. Ukraine will be a part of NATO.
• 57:18
  They were just pressuring Russia. That's
• 57:20
  how it goes. So if one accepts these
• 57:23
  characteration uh you know
• 57:25
  characterizations
• 57:26
  the conflict was treated not as an
• 57:29
  insurgency as civil war
• 57:33
  which it was. Ukrainian artillery
• 57:35
  strikes in the east are described as
• 57:38
  Kiev bombing its own populations.
• 57:40
  Civilian casualties are are constant.
• 57:44
  They're killing their own people. The
• 57:46
  Minsk accords that they put together for
• 57:49
  deescalation. They weren't implemented
• 57:53
  with the intent to honor them.
• 57:57
  They were put in to delay and give them
• 57:59
  time to um build up with more western
• 58:03
  weapons and defeat these these republics
• 58:06
  who had already voted to they were in
• 58:10
  succession trying to ease out of
• 58:13
  Ukraine. They've been trying it forever
• 58:15
  since 2014. They declared their own
• 58:18
  independence. They didn't want a
• 58:19
  governor from there. The Minsk agreement
• 58:21
  said that they could put in that a
• 58:23
  governor could be put in could be a a
• 58:26
  government uh that was not appointed by
• 58:29
  the head of Ukraine like all other
• 58:33
  governors that they could have some
• 58:34
  autonomy kind of like Strnenistria and
• 58:37
  Malddova where that that person's not
• 58:39
  appointed by the central government.
• 58:43
  Anyway, they they uh you know glad all
• 58:46
  of this and they beat up on it. So,
• 58:49
  Munich this year was dominated by
• 58:51
  Ukraine again. So, here we are. We're
• 58:54
  back to it. The panel revolved around
• 58:56
  support packages, air defense systems,
• 58:59
  sanctions,
• 59:01
  alliance, uh you know, NATO unity. The
• 59:04
  language was again moral, declarative.
• 59:08
  You know, there's there's there's no
• 59:10
  inclusiveness of any kind. There's no
• 59:12
  discussion of anything except Russia's
• 59:15
  an aggressor. This war started in 2022.
• 59:18
  It's all unilateral. Ukraine's defending
• 59:21
  itself only. And NATO is the guarantor
• 59:25
  of stability. Even Rubio gets on there.
• 59:27
  You're well, you guys got to take care
• 59:29
  of yourself and uh but we're with you,
• 59:32
  you know. Uh and he talks about
• 59:34
  mistakes. So the NATO secretary
• 59:36
  general's remarks were clear and
• 59:37
  uncompromising, too. He said there was
• 59:40
  absolutely no justification for Russia's
• 59:42
  invasion. He's nuts. But that he
• 59:45
  emphasized deterrence, sanctions, and
• 59:47
  sustained military assistance. That's
• 59:50
  that's what he wants. Deterrence,
• 59:53
  sanctions, and more military assistance
• 59:56
  for Ukraine. You know, let them all die.
• 59:59
  Basically, he's he's they're still
• 1:00:02
  talking, including Rubio, about what?
• 1:00:05
  Rules-based order. They're not
• 1:00:08
  rules-based. It's really not even order,
• 1:00:11
  [laughter] but but it's certainly not
• 1:00:12
  rules-based because rules apply to
• 1:00:14
  everyone and these don't. And then the
• 1:00:17
  necessity of resisting aggression,
• 1:00:20
  unless it's our aggression, [laughter]
• 1:00:22
  Rubio talking about aggression,
• 1:00:25
  resistance after just going in and
• 1:00:27
  slaughtering or stealing the the king of
• 1:00:31
  Venezuela, the leader of Venezuela. So
• 1:00:34
  these these this we're right back to
• 1:00:38
  political dog whistles. That's it. Uh so
• 1:00:42
  the critique I'm much more for it. So I
• 1:00:44
  want to talk about two speeches. Compare
• 1:00:47
  Rubio's. So So I I'm I pay attention to
• 1:00:50
  this uh Munich Security Conference,
• 1:00:52
  right? And the [snorts] security
• 1:00:54
  conference uh in 2007 is one of my
• 1:00:57
  favorites. And uh because the looks on
• 1:01:01
  the faces of Cheney and company
• 1:01:04
  when uh Vladimir Putin stood and
• 1:01:08
  Vladimir Putin has always been a
• 1:01:11
  wellspoken person and he's a former KGB,
• 1:01:16
  speaks German fluently. He is not
• 1:01:18
  against uh saying some pretty snippy
• 1:01:22
  things on the stage. So, he's always
• 1:01:24
  somebody worth watching. Uh he's
• 1:01:26
  certainly no Trump. He isn't uh he he
• 1:01:29
  isn't needlessly
• 1:01:33
  I don't know what demonizing and and you
• 1:01:36
  know, he doesn't doesn't or offensive to
• 1:01:38
  people. He's not that. That that that's
• 1:01:41
  one thing I can't stand about Trump. At
• 1:01:43
  least be diplomatic in your takedowns of
• 1:01:46
  people. and he's just, "No, you're an
• 1:01:48
  idiot." [laughter] You know, that's
• 1:01:50
  basically it. Well, you're just dumb.
• 1:01:53
  Yeah, that's helpful. Uh, [cough]
• 1:01:57
  so let's let's talk about this. Uh,
• 1:02:00
  Putin's 2007 speech at Munich was
• 1:02:06
  much different than the typical
• 1:02:08
  everybody body get together and yank
• 1:02:11
  each other's wieners. This is where this
• 1:02:15
  is where the the the rails
• 1:02:19
  didn't hold the train. And I thought
• 1:02:24
  about that entire, you know, that entire
• 1:02:26
  speech. It's a half an hour long. There
• 1:02:28
  are English versions of it out there and
• 1:02:30
  you should go and watch it what he said
• 1:02:32
  because everything he said has come to
• 1:02:35
  pass. All of it. And it's come to pass.
• 1:02:40
  He talked about it all. He he argued
• 1:02:44
  that the unipolar system, one center of
• 1:02:48
  power and decisionmaking,
• 1:02:51
  is unstable. He warned that unilateral
• 1:02:55
  actions create insecurity.
• 1:02:58
  He asked against whom NATO expansion is
• 1:03:02
  directed.
• 1:03:03
  Straight up. He goes, "Who's the enemy?
• 1:03:06
  Where is this enemy?" That's 2007, by
• 1:03:10
  the way. He said plainly that no one
• 1:03:13
  feels safe in a system where force is
• 1:03:17
  selectively applied, which it is. I I
• 1:03:21
  gave
• 1:03:23
  what do you call it? Show about the king
• 1:03:25
  of uh several different places in there.
• 1:03:28
  Go to Serbia. told me that's uh wellrun,
• 1:03:32
  you know, by and and this is what was
• 1:03:34
  actually floated about Ukraine recently
• 1:03:36
  is NATO uh supervision.
• 1:03:40
  Yeah, there's a good idea. Um who's who
• 1:03:43
  gets to run it? At the time in 2007,
• 1:03:46
  Western observers dismissed his warnings
• 1:03:49
  as rhetorical posturing. They assumed
• 1:03:53
  NATO expansion is defensive and welcomed
• 1:03:56
  by the new member states seeking
• 1:03:59
  security and they viewed Russia's
• 1:04:02
  objections as residual
• 1:04:05
  imperialistic sentiment. But
• 1:04:08
  architecture doesn't exist in
• 1:04:10
  abstraction. It exists in what the
• 1:04:12
  perception is. If one side perceives
• 1:04:14
  expansion as defensive and the other
• 1:04:17
  perceives it as encirclement,
• 1:04:20
  that's obviously going to create a
• 1:04:21
  friction. If your goal is to take
• 1:04:24
  Georgia,
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  Armenia,
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  all the former Soviet southern Soviet
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  republics, they they approach
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  Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Usbekiststan,
• 1:04:35
  all of which I've, you know, seen and
• 1:04:37
  and you still see it. Uh that there's a
• 1:04:40
  lot of that. Try to get them into NATO.
• 1:04:43
  They're East Asia for God's sake. North
• 1:04:46
  Atlantic Treaty Organization. Yeah.
• 1:04:49
  What's that for? defeat of Russia.
• 1:04:52
  Period. The end. Uh so that friction
• 1:04:57
  is really in Russia's view incremental
• 1:05:00
  provocation. Western leaders are of
• 1:05:03
  course forgetful. They only stick around
• 1:05:05
  four years at a time. Munich is
• 1:05:08
  unwilling to revisit 2007, not because
• 1:05:11
  the speech itself lacked merit, but
• 1:05:14
  because acknowledging its arguments
• 1:05:17
  about the structure itself would require
• 1:05:21
  reconsidering expansion and what they
• 1:05:24
  did, whether it was wrong or not, and
• 1:05:27
  whether continuing to do so is still
• 1:05:30
  wrong. It's a it's a it's a world view
• 1:05:34
  that I do not support. Uh, I don't
• 1:05:37
  support the idea that the world is at
• 1:05:40
  war and all we need to do is continue
• 1:05:42
  military actions all over the planet in
• 1:05:45
  order to save the world. We start wars
• 1:05:48
  all over the place. Yeah, that's what
• 1:05:50
  we're doing. The the the the war in
• 1:05:52
  Ukraine, we certainly helped that,
• 1:05:54
  didn't we? Million and a half guys dead
• 1:05:57
  or wounded in Ukraine. This we're very
• 1:06:01
  helpful, right? and and billions upon
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  billions, hundreds of billions spent for
• 1:06:09
  nothing for for ZIP just so Western arms
• 1:06:13
  manufacturers can get rich. So,
• 1:06:17
  let's talk about historical memory
• 1:06:20
  because uh between 1991 and 2022, the
• 1:06:24
  European security map, if you want to
• 1:06:27
  call NATO security, changed
• 1:06:29
  dramatically. Military alliances
• 1:06:32
  expanded. Political unions were were
• 1:06:35
  much deeper. Missile defense systems
• 1:06:39
  by the Polish have been put all over the
• 1:06:42
  place. Sanction regimes have become
• 1:06:45
  layered. Iran's been under sanctions
• 1:06:47
  forever, right? Energy dependency
• 1:06:50
  patterns, you know, were evolved and
• 1:06:53
  nobody liked the fact that they were
• 1:06:54
  paying Russia. Each of these
• 1:06:56
  developments have altered strategic
• 1:06:58
  calculation and Trump wants to own the
• 1:07:02
  energy infrastructure of the planet
• 1:07:05
  because he knows infrastructure is what
• 1:07:07
  keeps it all together years to come.
• 1:07:10
  So if Munich refuses to debate those
• 1:07:14
  cumulative changes, it reinforces the
• 1:07:16
  perception that it prefers affirmation,
• 1:07:19
  self-affirmation
• 1:07:21
  over introspective review of what really
• 1:07:24
  should happen. They never discuss any of
• 1:07:27
  that. It's just uh bad bad, you know,
• 1:07:29
  bad bad Putin, bad bad Russia, uh good
• 1:07:33
  good Zalinski. And Zalinsky was there.
• 1:07:36
  Same old crap. Hand out, you know. Oh
• 1:07:39
  gez, we need more money. We need it
• 1:07:41
  faster. We need more arms. We need it
• 1:07:43
  faster. Our people are dying, but you
• 1:07:46
  know, they're brave. Yeah, they're real
• 1:07:48
  brave as they die. Uh Soliv uh you know
• 1:07:53
  talks about the skepticism not just of
• 1:07:56
  Russia, but of me. I'm not Russian. You
• 1:07:59
  know, I I I'm a realist. You know, I
• 1:08:02
  think that Russia has some uh some guilt
• 1:08:05
  here, too.
• 1:08:06
  It doesn't mean we don't on the west.
• 1:08:09
  The western the western uh globalists
• 1:08:12
  don't. I mean Trump's still trying to
• 1:08:15
  extricate it himself not because of
• 1:08:18
  anything other than he cannot bring
• 1:08:21
  peace. I'll get peace in a day. He
• 1:08:24
  didn't get his uh Nobel Prize. Now he
• 1:08:28
  doesn't care about it anymore. The old u
• 1:08:32
  sour grapes theory right there. Well,
• 1:08:35
  you know, I didn't want that anyway. So,
• 1:08:37
  let's start some more war. Let's take
• 1:08:39
  over Let's take over Greenland. I know
• 1:08:42
  China and Russia are trying to take over
• 1:08:44
  Greenland, right? We got to go in there.
• 1:08:47
  So, uh five European uh Did you hear
• 1:08:50
  about this? Oh, no. I I'm sorry. I don't
• 1:08:52
  want to jump through my uh to my next
• 1:08:55
  topic. I really need to get to the uh
• 1:08:58
  the two analysis of um the the peace by
• 1:09:04
  force, you know, and uh that kind of
• 1:09:07
  thing because I wanted to look at the
• 1:09:11
  two quotes between
• 1:09:15
  I I I had a comparison of quotes
• 1:09:19
  that
• 1:09:21
  uh I and I what I did was I I
• 1:09:27
  re listened to
• 1:09:31
  uh Vladimir Putin and I listened to
• 1:09:36
  um
• 1:09:38
  Rubio yesterday
• 1:09:40
  and
• 1:09:42
  I you know it's um
• 1:09:45
  it's telling because this is the same
• 1:09:48
  old same old on the west we talk about
• 1:09:54
  rules-based order. We talk about uh
• 1:09:57
  Ukraine being brave just like so so last
• 1:10:00
  year was a bit different. You had um
• 1:10:03
  fans go out there and he had a pretty
• 1:10:04
  good appearance at the the security
• 1:10:07
  conference beat up on a bunch of the
• 1:10:10
  Europeans at that time. Here Rubio was a
• 1:10:13
  little bit lighter. Uh Rubio was still
• 1:10:16
  saying you need to um do more,
• 1:10:21
  but he
• 1:10:24
  wasn't as well spoken as last year Vance
• 1:10:28
  was and he did the same old thing
• 1:10:32
  [clears throat] talking about uh the
• 1:10:35
  evil party, but he did say that we had
• 1:10:38
  made all kinds of mistakes in the
• 1:10:43
  rules-based order that we never really
• 1:10:45
  applied it just like Carney did at his
• 1:10:48
  um speech at Davos uh month and a half
• 1:10:51
  ago or whenever that was. And uh I found
• 1:10:55
  that to be interesting that Rubio would
• 1:10:58
  admit it. And uh I I think the fact that
• 1:11:01
  he is admitting it is more
• 1:11:05
  uh necessary at this point because you
• 1:11:08
  can't hide the uh you can't hide the
• 1:11:11
  fact that we didn't um [clears throat]
• 1:11:15
  do what we said we were going to do. It
• 1:11:17
  just it it didn't happen. And it's funny
• 1:11:21
  because if you analyze
• 1:11:24
  uh what China said yesterday or not
• 1:11:27
  yesterday at the conference,
• 1:11:30
  it's funny because they are saying
• 1:11:34
  something similar to and they're calm
• 1:11:36
  and they're diplomatic about it and
• 1:11:38
  they're not pushing uh narratives that
• 1:11:43
  uh China's good and and morally right
• 1:11:46
  and they're not doing that. All this
• 1:11:49
  entire security conference was was for a
• 1:11:52
  group of people to get around around
• 1:11:55
  self- congratulate themselves uh each
• 1:11:58
  other and yank each other's wieners and
• 1:12:01
  talk about how wonderful it is that uh
• 1:12:04
  rules-based order. We need to get back
• 1:12:06
  to that uh you know globalist tendency
• 1:12:09
  because where are the good guys?
• 1:12:13
  Yeah.
• 1:12:16
  Meanwhile, China is funding ports run by
• 1:12:20
  India in Iran.
• 1:12:24
  Right. Bricks is settling. Do you know
• 1:12:27
  there's a there was an allegation
• 1:12:29
  yesterday that uh China the yuan is now
• 1:12:33
  up to 10%. Now that's not accurate. It's
• 1:12:37
  really only about 5%.
• 1:12:40
  And I if you go through in what the
• 1:12:43
  settlements are but bricks uh trade
• 1:12:47
  which is around 40% nationally but
• 1:12:50
  they're smaller amounts because all of
• 1:12:52
  it goes still goes through the west in
• 1:12:54
  Europe and uh uh Canada and the US still
• 1:12:58
  control most of the markets but the
• 1:13:00
  foreign systems uh uh the other systems
• 1:13:04
  the yuan heavy the rupee heavy the rubal
• 1:13:08
  heavy are being traded in national
• 1:13:11
  currency directly between each other to
• 1:13:13
  the exclusion of the dollar. So, it's
• 1:13:16
  it's it's definitely ongoing and it's
• 1:13:18
  definitely expanding and it's the the
• 1:13:21
  margins that are that are going to take
• 1:13:24
  away the the ability to the US to
• 1:13:26
  dominate the way it is as I talked about
• 1:13:28
  in one of the shows last week. So,
• 1:13:32
  meanwhile, India is staying out of this
• 1:13:35
  uh unipolar world stuff. All of the
• 1:13:40
  other parts of the world, especially
• 1:13:42
  Southeast Asia, are building logistics
• 1:13:44
  chain chains with and what do you think
• 1:13:48
  was the big deal in Venezuela? Logistics
• 1:13:50
  change
• 1:13:52
  infrastructure
• 1:13:54
  built by China, which Trump realizes is
• 1:13:57
  not uh
• 1:14:00
  in favor of hegemony of the US and it's
• 1:14:04
  against the dollar, it's against the
• 1:14:05
  market, it's against all those things.
• 1:14:07
  That's why It's not naroterrorism,
• 1:14:10
  friends and neighbors. It's not blowing
• 1:14:12
  up a couple of boats on the water. It's
• 1:14:14
  Oh my god, that's a hundred billion
• 1:14:16
  dollars they put in Venezuela.
• 1:14:20
  We can't lose South America. We're
• 1:14:22
  supposed to dominate South America. And
• 1:14:25
  so we start a war. It's a short one, but
• 1:14:29
  we started it and we seized a member.
• 1:14:32
  Meanwhile, rest of the world is building
• 1:14:34
  ports. We can't build new ports. What do
• 1:14:37
  we got going on? They're expanding dig
• 1:14:40
  digital architecture. They're
• 1:14:42
  modernizing their rail systems. India
• 1:14:46
  especially, you know, India isn't
• 1:14:48
  choosing sides. They're not doing it.
• 1:14:50
  They're stay doing what's best for them.
• 1:14:53
  They're choosing material leverage.
• 1:14:56
  That's what they're doing. And so
• 1:15:00
  these things are important. Meanwhile,
• 1:15:03
  in Munich, what's in Munich? Unity.
• 1:15:06
  We're all in unity. Beat up Putin. Moral
• 1:15:09
  outrage. Oh my god, Putin invaded in
• 1:15:12
  2022. They skipped the bombings and
• 1:15:15
  destruction of their own people from
• 1:15:17
  2014 to 2022 and they skip Minkx and all
• 1:15:21
  that other stuff. Say we got to test
• 1:15:22
  Putin further. We got to put more
• 1:15:25
  sanctions out there. 20 packages
• 1:15:27
  already. We need a 21st. More weapons.
• 1:15:30
  We got to modernize our weapons. Get
• 1:15:32
  ready for war with Russia by 2030.
• 1:15:35
  And it's always democracy, democracy,
• 1:15:38
  democracy. Very little about rebuilding
• 1:15:42
  the European manufacturing. It's been
• 1:15:44
  gone. Sent to China. Industrial energy
• 1:15:47
  competitiveness. They're paying, you
• 1:15:49
  know, according to Sachs, six times the
• 1:15:52
  amount that they ought to be for energy
• 1:15:54
  because they're buying it from the US
• 1:15:56
  and not from Russia. They're blowing up
• 1:15:59
  pipelines and and doing zero
• 1:16:02
  investigation. Although, did you hear
• 1:16:04
  that? Nalli was killed by u a frog dart
• 1:16:08
  poison that uh came from uh Ecuador. I
• 1:16:13
  can't remember. Ecuadorian Ecuadorian
• 1:16:16
  frog dart uh poison is what killed Alexe
• 1:16:20
  Nalli. And who did it? Vladimir Putin.
• 1:16:23
  And who discovered it? A a group of uh
• 1:16:26
  people who got it all wrong in several
• 1:16:28
  other cases similar in England. an
• 1:16:31
  English uh uh research um facility
• 1:16:35
  uh checked it out and said that Nalli
• 1:16:38
  was killed and they said, "Well, you
• 1:16:39
  didn't have access to the body. He's
• 1:16:40
  buried in Russia. [laughter] You got
• 1:16:42
  nothing." And what do you don't even
• 1:16:44
  have reports? You have no Well, samples
• 1:16:46
  of uh uh swabs that were taken from his
• 1:16:50
  cell after he died and smuggled out of
• 1:16:53
  Russia were sent to this lab in England.
• 1:16:57
  in the lab in England determined that
• 1:16:59
  Nalli was killed by frog dart poison
• 1:17:02
  Vladimir Putin imported somehow from
• 1:17:04
  Ecuador or wherever the hell it was in
• 1:17:06
  South America. [laughter] And so yeah,
• 1:17:09
  you can't in in in two three years you
• 1:17:12
  can figure out that a guy whose body you
• 1:17:14
  didn't examine was killed by frog dart
• 1:17:16
  poison, but you can't figure out who was
• 1:17:19
  involved in destroying the uh uh sever
• 1:17:25
  uh Nordstream 2. You can't you can't
• 1:17:28
  tell me that. You have no idea. You know
• 1:17:31
  who who uh bombed the crocus. you know,
• 1:17:35
  you have no no idea any sort of attempts
• 1:17:39
  on uh you can't postulate on on who's
• 1:17:43
  trying to kill generals in Russia and if
• 1:17:46
  those are done by Ukraine. You can hide
• 1:17:48
  all of that crap, but by God, you can
• 1:17:50
  find out that Nalli the the dem the
• 1:17:53
  Democrat. Yeah, right. Uh that Nalli the
• 1:17:56
  Democrat was killed by Putin with frog
• 1:17:58
  dart poison. [laughter]
• 1:18:01
  Yeah, that's unity, friends and
• 1:18:02
  neighbors. Uh but uh excuse me. You
• 1:18:07
  can't dominate geopolitics with think
• 1:18:09
  tanks, press conferences, and u you know
• 1:18:12
  making crap up as you go along like Nali
• 1:18:15
  was killed by frog dart poison. That's a
• 1:18:18
  joke just thinking about it. You know
• 1:18:21
  power is concrete, steel, semiconductors
• 1:18:24
  and shipping lanes. And we get together
• 1:18:26
  and talk about moral
• 1:18:29
  right. You know, we're going to be
• 1:18:31
  sitting. We're democracy. We're
• 1:18:33
  democracy.
• 1:18:36
  H [sighs and gasps] crazy stuff. And
• 1:18:38
  we're winding down to the end of the
• 1:18:39
  show here. Munich talks about rulesbased
• 1:18:43
  order. China, even at the Munich
• 1:18:46
  conference, nobody else talked about it.
• 1:18:49
  They talked about ports. Munich talking
• 1:18:52
  about unity. We got to stand with
• 1:18:54
  Ukraine. India's building rail systems.
• 1:18:57
  Munich talks about punishing Russia.
• 1:19:00
  More sanctions. Russia builds corridors
• 1:19:03
  to the east with its allies. Munich
• 1:19:06
  talks about values. Half the world is
• 1:19:10
  talking about the loss of energy
• 1:19:12
  security. I'm not saying that because
• 1:19:15
  I'm anti- West. I'm not. That's a
• 1:19:18
  comparative reality.
• 1:19:20
  It It's uh
• 1:19:22
  I don't know.
• 1:19:24
  Why are we sitting around debating
• 1:19:26
  morality?
• 1:19:28
  Why don't we debate reality instead of
• 1:19:31
  who's who?
• 1:19:34
  We have [sighs and gasps]
• 1:19:36
  diplomatic contrast
• 1:19:39
  certainly between India, Russia, China,
• 1:19:42
  Brazil and anyone in the west. They talk
• 1:19:47
  about
• 1:19:48
  infrastructure. They talk about the
• 1:19:52
  system itself and how the system
• 1:19:56
  of what they are of the way it is run
• 1:20:01
  needs to be revamped. Even Rubio said we
• 1:20:03
  need to rebuild the system.
• 1:20:06
  But he doesn't want to build it for
• 1:20:08
  anybody else. He wants to restructure it
• 1:20:10
  so it remains dominant the way it was
• 1:20:13
  before.
• 1:20:14
  And the more they push toward that, the
• 1:20:16
  more people are going to fight against
• 1:20:18
  it. Do you like being told what to do or
• 1:20:20
  do you like being brought along? That's
• 1:20:23
  the question. So, the structural
• 1:20:26
  critique I suggest strongly that you go
• 1:20:29
  back and listen to their versions on
• 1:20:32
  YouTube where they'll translate it for
• 1:20:34
  you or you can follow along and read it,
• 1:20:36
  but you should watch his mannerisms. And
• 1:20:39
  uh he was pretty brutal in 2007.
• 1:20:43
  um h not brutal. He was uh
• 1:20:46
  it wasn't even confrontational. It was
• 1:20:48
  more realistic. You know, here you are
• 1:20:52
  expanding NATO and acting as if there
• 1:20:55
  are no consequences to your
• 1:20:58
  one-sizefits-all
• 1:21:00
  uh category of rule. Um it's a good
• 1:21:05
  speech. And then you can listen to uh
• 1:21:10
  you can listen to
• 1:21:12
  Rubio's yesterday, the same old
• 1:21:14
  platitudes. you and and I challenge you
• 1:21:16
  what you could do is you could go out
• 1:21:19
  and um uh take [laughter]
• 1:21:23
  take Rubio's speech and play it next to
• 1:21:28
  Cheni's speech in 2007 for example or uh
• 1:21:33
  any other notable speech by a US uh
• 1:21:36
  foreign services guy and uh have it and
• 1:21:40
  see if there's any difference. I mean,
• 1:21:42
  we're just re rephrasing the same old
• 1:21:46
  crap that we've been phrasing for years.
• 1:21:49
  And the rest of the world is talking
• 1:21:52
  about how that phrasing and framing of
• 1:21:56
  issues as being just rules-based order,
• 1:21:59
  which nobody has to follow
• 1:22:02
  except people you dislike.
• 1:22:05
  you know, we select who get it's like a
• 1:22:07
  judge in in a in a criminal court, you
• 1:22:10
  know, allowing money to uh uh well,
• 1:22:13
  maybe not a judge, but it's a fact. You
• 1:22:15
  know, money money can buy you justice
• 1:22:18
  that you're never going to get from the
• 1:22:20
  public defender. You know, that's
• 1:22:22
  reality. It's unfortunate, but true. And
• 1:22:25
  the system is what needs to be fought,
• 1:22:28
  not the fact that any particular public
• 1:22:31
  defender is bad or any particular judge.
• 1:22:33
  They're not. they're doing. They're in
• 1:22:36
  the system that they've been presented.
• 1:22:37
  And if the system you're presenting is a
• 1:22:40
  doineering alleged rulesbased order and
• 1:22:44
  all you have is moral
• 1:22:47
  the moral right. All you can do is pump
• 1:22:50
  the moral right. And that's all we've
• 1:22:52
  been doing for 30 years since 35 34
• 1:22:56
  whatever it was since the collapse of
• 1:22:57
  the Soviet Union. That's it. Moral
• 1:23:00
  theater. Oh, we're we won. We won and we
• 1:23:03
  look at us. We're It's a rules-based
• 1:23:05
  order. People are tired of it. When are
• 1:23:08
  you going to fix a structure? When are
• 1:23:09
  you going to propose something different
• 1:23:11
  that isn't we say you do? And uh that's
• 1:23:15
  that. Anyway, that's the show for today.
• 1:23:18
  It's been international flavor. I got
• 1:23:20
  plenty to talk about this week because
• 1:23:22
  uh it's a wealth of information from the
• 1:23:25
  uh Munich Security Conference once again
• 1:23:28
  and from the nonsense that was spouted
• 1:23:31
  off in general there. I got some notable
• 1:23:34
  quotes this week. The old Z monster was
• 1:23:37
  there uh you know hat in hand begging
• 1:23:39
  for more crap and uh uh meanwhile things
• 1:23:42
  are going poorly in Ukraine. Um, uh,
• 1:23:45
  Samuel Trap, International Flavor,
• 1:23:48
  Internationalalfflavor.com.
• 1:23:50
  All of our shows are available at
• 1:23:52
  damradio.com/mpodcast
• 1:23:55
  as well. And uh, you can listen to me
• 1:23:57
  live here every morning from 7:30 to 9
• 1:24:02
  uh, in central time. And uh, you can uh,
• 1:24:05
  now listen to civicoutlaws.com come
• 1:24:07
  Friday. Have a very nice day. Glad you
• 1:24:09
  joined in.